OMAHA, Neb. - John Savage and his UCLA team have a few well-worn phrases.

Among them: execution, pass the baton, Bruin baseball. After three trips to Omaha in four years, they can add "championship" to the vocabulary.

UCLA raised its first-ever national championship trophy Tuesday after an 8-0 win over Mississippi State that embodied all of those phrases on a run marked by stunning consistency.

In all five of their victories at TD Ameritrade Park, the Bruins (49-17) allowed no more than a single run. Along the way, they laid down 12 bunts, tying a Series record set by Santa Clara in 1962. It was small ball at its finest, the prize at the end perhaps silencing protests that UCLA had lucked its way to wins.

"Anybody that questions us now, I don't think knows the game," Savage said.

The Bruins, as usual, jumped on mistakes Tuesday. Just two at-bats into the game, Mississippi State (51-20) committed two errors on one play, the first when pitcher Luis Pollorena misplayed Kevin Kramer's bunt, and the second when first baseman Wes Rea couldn't hold on to the ensuing throw.

Only two of UCLA's postseason opponents avoided making at least one error.

Leadoff hitter Brian Carroll, who had reached first base when hit by Pollorena's fourth pitch, ran to third as the ball bounced off Rea's glove.

Right fielder Eric Filia then singled into the right-field corner to give the Bruins a lead they never lost.

In a College World Series that drew frequent complaints about its lack of power hitting, Filia shined as his team's hottest bat. He finished the game with five RBIs, bringing his postseason total to 11. A major reason for the Bruins' run, 20 of his 33 RBIs on the season came after the start of May.

UCLA sprinkled seven more runs through the rest of the game, forcing the Bulldogs to use All-SEC closer Jonathan Holder in the fourth inning. The final eight-run tally was the team's highest since mid-May.

"We stayed small, barreled balls up," Filia said.

The team was again steady on the mound. Starter Nick Vander Tuig opened the game with two strikeouts - 89 and 91 miles per hour - and wavered little from there in throwing two perfect innings. The San Francisco Giants' sixth-round draft pick shut out the Bulldogs through eight innings, struck out six and walked just one.

He worked his curveball with great command and threw strikes on 77 of his 117 pitches.

It was a typical postseason performance for the junior right-hander who earned his 14 th victory of the season to lead the Bruins' staff. In his previous outing against North Carolina State, he retired 13 of 14 batters in a sterling start that stretched into the eighth inning.

"I'm really at a loss for words," he said after Tuesday's game. "What was the question?"

Even before UCLA finished its last at-bat in the bottom of the eighth, all 27,127 in the stands - a stadium record - knew the game was over. As if to signal that ending, three blonde women ran into the outfield, drawing light applause from the stands and the dugout.

By the time closer David Berg took the mound in the ninth, a win almost was a formality. He used just 11 pitches to complete UCLA's first-ever baseball championship.